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Thanks Again Salahn67, you can't do the exams on-line. I backed up a couple of subjects with OAT cd roms, including MET and aircraft tech. I used this set for my PPL and found them a fairly easy read. Scribd offers a fascination collection of all kinds of reading materials: presentations, textbooks, popular reading, and much more, all organized by topic. You can get just as good a bag Pierre Cardin pilot bag from Argos for £19. The reason is simple; for some subjects you may find the Trevor Thom best, for another subject you might prefer the Jeremy Pratt. For Learning To Fly...
It also acts as a practice exam book, in the same way that the Confuser does, but because it integrates with a recognised textbook series, the explanations to the answers are consistent with the textbooks. Also, the Simplifier questions are written specifically for the book and designed to both test your knowledge and prepare you for the sort of nonsense the CAA ask about in the exams. I found the Gliems PPL Reviewer a worthwhile read when preparing for the actual exam. The Jeppesen PPL book was packed with info but I personally felt it a secondary resource when cramming for the exam. The fact that i still read it and learn something shows the quality and quantity of information it contains. Maybe I did it wrong, but I studied to jump through the hoop. Now I read to become a better aviator. The Trevor Thom ones have their fans but some think they are a little 'Dry' - quite what that means I'm not sure, I've only used his No. Didn't use any CD-ROM's so can't comment but the OAT ones seem popular with others. Hi MARCOFLY, First of all, I assume you will be doing a European JAA EASA PPL, rather than the American FAA PPL. I believe the FAA PPL course may only require one book that covers all subjects, for which you can choose between two publishers, Gleim or ASA, but I don't have the FAA PPL so I'm not sure. The FAA also produce excellent publications of their own, which are also well worth consideration. Assuming you will be doing the European JAA PPL, however, then you will be doing about six subjects for each of which you will need a seperate book. I don't think you can say that any particular book range per se is any better than any other. It's very much a question of personal preferance, which one you feel most comfortable with. This means you have to fork out a large sum when the expenditure could so easily be spread over a period of months. Furthermore, you are stuck with one book range and the saving for buying bulk, if any, is very small. Personally, I do not favour this approach. I think it is just a money-making wheeze. I feel it is much better to buy all items of kit, including books, individually as you need them. Go to a pilot shop and spend time looking at them all. Compare the various books available and choose, for each subject, the one you feel you can best work with. For Navigation, you might find the Jeremy Pratt better than Trevor Thom, but for Aviation Law the Trevor Thom might be better than the Jeremy Pratt. Another student might find the reverse to be true. It's entirely personal preference. With my old eyes, I tended to prefer Jeremy Pratt stuff purely because the typeface used in the Thom books, I found, was harder for me to read. Turning to whizz wheels, rules and protractors, first of all you may be able to pick a whizz wheel up cheap by watching your club notice board. Other members often sell these off when they have passed the PPL as they are then allowed to use a hand-held electronic navigation computer instead and don't need the whizz wheel any more. This can save you money. Rulers and protractors too are a matter for personal choice. The traditional nav protractor is the square 'Douglas' protractor but many, including myself, prefer a circular protractor. You can also buy a Pierre Cardin pilot bag at Argos for under £20 that is every bit as good as bags costing 50% more at the pilot shops. Well that's my two penneth. Good luck with your flying MARCOFLY, Broomstick. For Learning To Fly... I did AFE Book... But for the Beaurocratic exam... Then Get the PPL Confuser... They seem to test you on tax more than anything... But the Confuser Explains the types of questions they test you on... It is nicely written, pleasant to read, and has lots of very high quality illustrations that add greatly to one's understanding. It is also very good at making the theory practical, and illustrate how to apply it in actual flying. I particularly like the great job it does at explaining a tricky topic like the effect of slip-roll coupling on lateral stability, in a brilliantly simple yet perfectly correct manner. There are just a couple chapters that are only applicable to the US, and those are easily skipped over. Having used both I would second Edward Hawkins comments above. I feel the jeremy pratt books are a little more concise and also worked out to be a little cheaper or certainly used to. I am also a big fan of the confuser books for the final push and polish a few days before the exam. If your a tight skate like me then you can pick them up second hand off ebay, club board etc. The only book in the series that you really need to buy brand new is the air law one. The others don't really change that much from one edition to the other. Why not speak to a few people where you fly from and see if you can borrow an edition of each for a few days and see which you prefer? The 'Trevor Thom' and the 'Jeremy Pratt' series books. Some people prefer the one, some the other. I should say don't buy any of the study packs. Choose your books one by one as you go. The reason is simple; for some subjects you may find the Trevor Thom best, for another subject you might prefer the Jeremy Pratt. Furthermore, why pay about £200 up front for books you may not need to use for some time, especially when you may be able to buy individual books second hand from other club members or off the Internet. If you buy off the Internet, make sure you get the latest edition. I am assuming, of course, that you have a pilot shop within reasonable reach so that you can go in there and thumb through the books and choose the one you prefer. Don't be tempted either by the natty pilot bag the study packs are supplied in. You can get just as good a bag Pierre Cardin pilot bag from Argos for £19. The whizz wheel in the study packs too can often be purchased second hand from other club members. Many people buy electronic flight planners once they have their licences. You don't say whether you intend 'going professional'. If you are, then why pay for the 'Crap 1' whizz wheel in the study packs and then have to pay out another £65 or so only months later for the 'Crap 5' you will need for your ATPL course? Thank you for all your responses! I'm a UAV engineer hoping to learn to fly primarily for leisure, although after the PPL I would love to go in to aero displays, however thats still a long way off! I already have quite a passion for flying and aircraft so the books I want are ones that cover the PPL syllabus, not too bothered for flight planners as yet just the course materail. In my experience I have always kept with the same author to keep a consistent learning style. I think I will look to the Thom or Pratt books and try and dedide between them. Is there any difference other than just style? Ie is the information the same just presented differently? Thanks Again Salahn67, you can't do the exams on-line. You have to sit them at the school you're training - assuming you're training at a UK school or one of the schools in the US that operate under the oversight of the UK CAA. If you intend to do your flight training in Sweden, including the final skills test, then you also need to sit the theory exams in Sweden. Oh, and the topics to be covered in the PPL exams are essentially all decided upon by ICAO, and are further narrowed down by JAR-FCL, so I would not expect there's a lot of difference in difficulty across the JAA member states. Judging by your English, you'd be best off doing the Swedish exams anyway... The questions in the exam are a bit different and you should understand why answer B is the right one. The books - apart from Air Law - are really interesting and they are a good read. They provide you with all the knowledge you will need for your PPL exams. I usually read a chapter, make notes, run through notes and then move to the next chapter, once i finish the book, i run through all the notes i made and if I don't understand something fully, I go back to it and read through the certain chapter in the book again. Once I think I have it all in my head, i do the confuser questions quite a few times. If i get something wrong - I read the explanation and on a seperate sheet of paper i write the question number down.. Confuser is useful, really useful but it shouldn't be used as a primary source of information for your PPL exams. Study for PPL exams hard.. However there are national differences in the way that PPL questions are set, and in my case Belgium the actual exam questions were very different in both format and content from those in the confuser. Make sure you localise the air law exam to the location you train in as this can trip you up. On the textbook side I found the Thom books well written with good content and quite user friendly. I used this set for my PPL and found them a fairly easy read. I backed up a couple of subjects with OAT cd roms, including MET and aircraft tech. I got my worst exam result in my strongest subject Nav , possibly because I took it before I discovered the confuser, though a ruler malfunction didn't help either... The IMC confuser is pretty good too, when you get on to that. If you want to understand the subjects in depth, neither exams nor confuser may be appropriate, but that wasn't your question! There must be a story in here. I've not seen the Trevor Thom ones so I can't compare. AFE and TT used to be the only two book series for the PPL but I seem to remember someone here announcing a third supplier a while ago. Maybe Oxford, but I'm not sure. There must be a story in here. Some might say I'm being unfair to the ruler, but here goes: Near the start of the exam I had to measure some distances. One of them was too long for my trusty Radio Nav plotter, so I used my nav ruler for the first time. It was about 6 inches long, so that last mark on the end had to be 60 nm, didn't it... At last I came to a multiple choice answer which was impossible given my distances, and I went back and reworked the paper. Quite stressful, as I recall. Having completed my exams using the Air Pilots Manual Series I think the confuser is a must, since it helps you understand the type of questions you will get and that familiarity saves time in the exam. Although not directly related to the question I recommend for the Nav exam that you practice finding locations on the chart using the latitude and longitude scales. I overlooked this, and since I wasn't fluent at it spent 10 minutes of shear panic trying to find the required locations, without which the whole exam is a no go. I know its a basic thing but not necessarily easy when the nerves have cut in at the start of the exam. A friend of mine had exactly the same experience. The Confuser seems to be considered as essential, but I got through all exams with a good result using the AFE books only. This went well so I decided not to buy the Confuser and used this book for all other tests as well. It has explanations to why a certain answer is correct using crossreferences to the other books in the series. I´m from Spain but I have decided to do it in UK. I need the PPL books, I have three of seven , the collection is Airlife, author: Trevor Thom, The Air pilot´s Manual, I need the others four, but there are many collections of the same author, the difference is the publication year. Are there different concepts? Are there any problem with the licences? Trevor Thom's books are good but apparantly some find them a bit 'dry' and a little dull. I was looking for an IMC confuser last year and a fair few vendors were selling the previous one rather than the latest edition. Amazon is a good move tho' as the confuser was a few pounds cheaper and the latest TThom Vol. I find the AFE books much, much easier to read and to understand. Another plus of the AFE books is that there are only 5 books to cover all of the exams for the PPL compared with 7 for the Trevor Thom which makes them cheaper as well. A word on the PPL Confuser: It is an invaluable tool for passing the PPL exams. I am told that unfortunately the author has died and the copyright for the book is in probate, hence the current version of the book is out of print. Check on ebay and make sure you get the current version Edition 9, I think The PPL confuser is brilliant after reading the books, as it gets you thinking trained up on 95% of what you will be asked in the exams. If you get a question wrong, simply go back and re read the book on that particular point. And some of the answers in the later editions are printed in bold type. Books: Trevor Thom Flight computer: CRP 1, otherwise the Trevor Thom Nav book doesn't help much! You also need a chart, protractor and ruler to work through the book. Hello to everybody, I will be commencing my initial PPL training with Multiflight in January. I have been looking through Amazon and there appears to be a good number of used copies, some for as litle as 1p plus postage. Now I know that six books shouldnt be my main concern financially when considering a career in the skies however I would like to try and save a few pounds here and there where possible. Would anybody know if the earlier publications of these books are still relevant today. I would imagine that perhaps Air Law and Navigation may have altered somewheat since the late 80's but would there be significant diferences in the majority of content? I must streess that I am no cheap skate and am more than prepared to spend the money :ok:...... Lady Whirls II is right about getting a new Air Law book, I did my training on Microlights so had to get the Microlight version anyway, but you need to be right up to date there. BTW - Personal preference was for the RT book in the Airlife series as I found CAP413 hard going I went straight to the end of the story, turned out it was the ATCO did it! At the RT exam I was asked if I'd read any of CAP413 to which I replied that I hadn't. When the examiner saw the book he commented that it was the content of CAP413, just written in terms us microlighters could understand. Hi Stephen, The Trevor Thom books are not the only range for PPL. There is also the Jeremy Pratt series which some prefer, as the Thom writing style is apt to be a bit turgid. I would also suggest you buy your books individually as you need them rather than buying the whole Thom set. This way you can compare the Thom and Pratt books together for each subject and choose whichever one you prefer. It is as well to know which edition is current and then buy only that edition, irrespective of where you buy it, in order to have the most up to date edition. Hi all, Again some great advice coming through here. I've decided to purchase a copy of Jeremy Pratt's Air Law, Operational Procedures, Communications: Volume 2. There seems to be a recurring theme that the Air Pilots Manual's are a little tricky to get to grips with so as I already own Volume 1, I can now hopefully compare the two styles of writing and make a judgement on which suits me best. Thanks for the tips and I'll keep you posted!
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